Americans were reading books before the first printing press was even invented. As people were reading, writers were forming. Ernest Hemingway was a man with a unique imagination, which was obsessed with violence, but with that and his fascination for the act of courage in a dangerous situation, it served as a basis for his most memorable books.
Ernest Hemingway led a riveting life from birth to death. It had many ups and downs but his experiences are what made him the great author he became known to be. To begin with Ernest was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois (Magnum). Hemingway’s early home life was prevailed by females. He grew up with four sisters, an overly feminine and only one brother. Grace, his mother, was determined to have a musician in the family so she gave all her kids an instrument to learn. The persistence of his mother pushing music on him eventually led to him disliking her (Michael). His father, Clarence, grew tired of his wife treating Ernest like a female so he taught him hunting and fishing. Soon after his father taught him the ways of nature, his father went into depression, leaving Hemingway on his own to figure out the rest (Michal). The first sign of Hemingway’s writing talents came about when he became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Ernest had no formal college education, he thought of higher education as bunk (Ernest Miller). The only training he received was from the high school newspaper, and from working as a reporter for local newspapers (Ernest). Later in life Ernest moved to Paris with his wife Hadley, where he started working at the Toronto Star (Ernest Miller). His relationship with Hadley did not last long, soon after Hadley came many other marriages to: P...
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that americans were reading books before the first printing press was invented. ernest hemingway had a unique imagination, which was obsessed with violence, but his fascination for the act of courage served as basis for his most memorable books.
- Describes ernest hemingway's life from birth to death. it had many ups and downs, but his experiences made him a great author.
- Analyzes ernest hemingway's terse, journalistic style that greatly impacted humans emotionally and influenced a generation of new american writers.
- Explains that ernest hemingway wrote a number of exceptional novels, including a farewell to arms and the sun also rises.
- Describes brady, c. a., "ernest hemingway." new catholic encyclopedia.
- Cites ernest miller hemingway's dictionary of american biography.
- Explains that hemingway received the american academy of arts and letters award of merit in 1945, and the nobel prize in 1954 for all of his great works.
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- Narrates how hemingway fell in love with the island's charms and the fact that it felt like living in another country. in 1929, his novel a farewell to arms was published.
- Explains that hemingway and his wife pauline went on a three-month safari to africa in 1933, inspired by theodore roosevelt's legendary hunts.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway lived his life as he wanted. his writing touched the hearts of millions.
- Describes the life of clarence edmonds and grace hall hemingway in oak park, illinois. his father was a practicing doctor and taught him how to hunt and fish.
- Explains that hemingway didn't like his mother and grew up in a religious environment. he went to oak park and river forest high school, where he realized his writing gift.
- Explains how ernest's father, who would commit suicide, kissed his son goodbye with tears in his eyes. he wrote 'for whom the bell tolls' because he felt older than his father at that time.
- Narrates how he stayed to himself and went through a little culture shock due to kansas city's complex nature. his writing style was brief and to the point.
- Describes how hemingway wanted to join the army but could not due to a defective left eye which he inherited from his mother. he became second lieutenant of the red cross and was hit in the leg by an austrian machine gun.
- Narrates how he won the italian medal of valor and spent all of his recovery time at the ospedale croce rossa american, in milan. he returned to oak hill without any complaints.
- Narrates how hemingway moved to chicago and met elizabeth hadly richerdson, who he wanted to marry, but money was a problem, so they moved back to canada.
- Narrates how after a drunken party where he babbled on about hunting, fishing, and bull fighting, martha was hospitalized for having serious head trama. she laughed at his sad state.
- Describes how a plane crash left him with concussion, paralysis of the sphincter, first degree burns in his face, arm and head. he later committed to the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota.
- Explains that the party lasted 24 hours from noon of july 21st to noon july 22nd. the guests included general c. t. lanham, ernest's old pals from paris, italian royalty and the maharajah of behar.
- Narrates how ernest had a couple shocks in his life, such as the death of his closest friend, the cuban revolution, and his black lab's death.
- Describes how mary hemingway, his wife at the time, heard a gun go off in the other room. she hurried towards the sound of the gunshot and saw ernest with his favorite 12 gauge shot gin.
- Explains that hemingway shot himself while cleaning a shotgun yesterday morning. no time has been set for the funeral services, which will be private.
- Narrates how mary and hemingway's 3 sons asked the priest to read ecclesiastes' favorite passage from the roman catholic douay version. the priest didn't understand the meaning of their request.
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